Chapter 4
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INDIVIDUAL AND MARKET DEMAND
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Chapter Outline
• The Effects of Changes in the Price• The Effects of Changes in Income• The Income and Substitution Effects of a Price
Change• Consumer Responsiveness to Changes in Price• Market Demand: Aggregating Individual
Demand Curves• Price Elasticity of Demand• The Dependence of Market Demand on Income• Application: Forecasting Economic Trends• Cross-price Elasticities of Demand
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The Effect of Changes in Price
• Price-consumption curve (PCC): for a good X is the set of optimal bundles traced on an indifference map as the price of X varies (holding income and the price of Y constant).
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Figure 4.1: The Price-Consumption Curve
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Figure 4.2: An Individual Consumer’s Demand Curve
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The Effects of Changes in Income
• Income-consumption curve (ICC): for a good X is the set of optimal bundles traced on an indifference map as income varies (holding the prices of X and Y constant).
• Engel curve: curve that plots the relationship between the quantity of X consumed and income.
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The Effects of Changes in Income
• Normal good: one whose quantity demanded rises as income rises.
• Inferior good: one whose quantity demanded falls as income rises.
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Figure 4.3: An Income-Consumption Curve
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Figure 4.4: An Individual Consumer’s Engel Curve
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Figure 4.5: The Engel Curve for Normal and Inferior Goods
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Income and Substitution Effects
• Substitution effect: that component of the total effect of a price change that results from the associated change in the relative attractiveness of other goods.
• Income effect: that component of the total effect of a price change that results from the associated change in real purchasing power.
• Total effect: the sum of the substitution and income effects.
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Figure 4.6: The Total Effectof a Price Increase
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Figure 4.7: The Substitution and Income Effects of a Price Change
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Figure 4.8: Income and Substitution Effects for an
Inferior Good
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Giffen Goods
• Giffen good: one for which the quantity demanded rises as its price rises.– The Giffen good must be an inferior
good
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Figure 4.9: The Demand Curvefor a Giffen Good
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Figure 4.10: Income and Substitution Effects for Perfect
Complements
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Figure 4.11: Income and Substitution Effects for Perfect
Substitutes
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Figure 4.12: Income and Substitution Effects of a Price
Increase for Salt
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Figure 4.13: Income and Substitution Effects for a Price-
Sensitive Good
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Figure 4.14: A Price Increasefor Car Washes
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Figure 4.15: James’ Demandfor Car Washes
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Market Demand Curves
• Market demand curve: the horizontal summation of the individual demand curves.
• Price elasticity of demand: the present age change in the quantity of a good demanded that result from a 1 present change in its price.
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Figure 4.16: Generating Market Demand from Individual
Demands
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Figure 4.17: The Market Demand Curve for Beech
Saplings
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Figure 4.18: Market Demand with Identical Consumers
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Three Categories of Price Elasticity
• Elastic → € < -1 • Inelastic → € > -1 • Unit elastic → € = 1
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Figure 4.19: Three Categoriesof Price Elasticity
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Figure 4.20: The Point-Slope Method
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Figure 4.21: Two Important Polar Cases
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Figure 4.22: Elasticity is Unit-Free
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Elasticity and Total Revenue
• A price reduction will increase total revenue if and only if the absolute value of the price elasticity of demand is greater than 1.
• An increase in price will increase total revenue if and only if the absolute value of the price elasticity is less than 1.
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Figure 4.23: The Effect on Total Expenditure of a Reduction in
Price
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Figure 4.24: Demand and Total Expenditure
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Figure 4.25: The Demand for Bus Rides
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Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand
• Substitution possibilities: the substitution effect of a price change tends to be small for goods with no close substitutes.
• Budget share: the larger the share of total expenditures accounted for by the product, the more important will be the income effect of a price change.
• Direction of income effect: a normal good will have a higher price elasticity than an inferior good.
• Time: demand for a good will be more responsive to price in the long-run than in the short-run.
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Figure 4.26: Price Elasticity Is Greater in
the Long Run than in the Short Run
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Figure 4.27: The Engel Curve for Foodof A and B
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Figure 4.28: Market Demand Sometimes Depends on the Distribution of
Income
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Figure 4.29: An Engel Curveat the Market Level
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Figure 4.30: Engel Curves for Different Types of Goods
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Figure A4.1: A Constant Elasticity Demand Curve
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Figure A4.2: The Segment-Ratio Method
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Figure A4.3: Elasticity at Different Positions Along a Straight-Line Demand
Curve
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Figure A4.4: Ordinary vs. Income-Compensated Demand Curves for a Normal
Good
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Figure A4.5: Ordinary vs. Income-Compensated Demand Curves for an Inferior Good
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